UFO Spotted Near Hecker, IL

Hopefuly I have it this time.
This is something I captured a lil while back, (I think) quite similiar in the original post here to the 2nd picture?
It was taken looking directly East from Marmora (Ontario)

First off, I am normally just a lurker around here. I saw something very similar traveling from the west to the northeast in Marion County Illinois
on last Friday the 19th . It appeared to be like flames of quickly alternating color. I tracked it across the night sky for approx 1 or 2 min. It
seem to be fairly low. At arms reach about the size of a penny. I was too awestruck to even think of taking any pictures. Being due east of Scott
Air Force Base you see quite a bit of strange air traffic but this was something different.

Great find! I am pretty impressed that they got pictures. I bet it was beautiful to see in real life with all those colors! When I had a sighting,
I was so amazed I didn't want to go inside for my camera!

Phage posted a good video it's a star I live in the UK and every year in the winter months from November through to March we gets reports in the local
paper/radio about multi coloured lights in the sky, 9/10 times its Sirius which a fantastic sight on a really clear crisp winter night and a couple of
other account for other reports.

There are MANY threads on here that discuss this subject and quite often members on here CLAIM to be seasoned sky watchers and they have never seen
this object before blah blah blah obviously they are not as good at watching the sky as they think.

The other problem is video/phone/cameras and the people who use them on this pursuit of filming lights in the sky at night, well one problem is NO
tripod used, second to much zoom (worse if it's digital zoom) but the worst thing is auto focus, manual focus is best, even the most expensive DSLR's
have problems with auto focus with a dot of light in a dark sky.

Photography has been a hobby of mine for 30+ years and at night manual everything is the way to go shutter speed/iso (film speed)/aperture and
focus

The change in shape is usually caused by the auto focus being wrong and a combination of the atmosphere.

Hopefuly I have it this time.
This is something I captured a lil while back, (I think) quite similiar in the original post here to the 2nd picture?
It was taken looking directly East from Marmora (Ontario)

Date, time,location, direction facing exif data for the picture or its not worth posting!

Marmora Ontario, which would be off Hwy7, bout midpoint between Toronto & Kingston, was facing eastward, watching Jupiter & the Pleades a little after
2am. This thing was about a thumbs width at arm length to the left of Jupiter. I could see it dimly with my naked eye, And I believe my eyepiece I was
using here gave me about 40X magnification. Last weekend of August (This August), hopefuly this helps, other than this info, all I know is whatever
this is was there for a few minutes, then was not. Ive looked a few times since, but nothing as of yet?

It appears that the objects were also seen over Millstadt, IL., which is about 10 miles NE of Hecker. Sheriff deputy states that he thought it was a
satellite. (sure doesn't look like a satellite to me, but I'm not an expert). www.bnd.com...=omni_popular#wgt=pop

Experts at the St. Louis planetarium stated:

News 4 showed photos of the lights to experts at the James S. McDonnell Planetarium in St. Louis.

They suspect the first light was the star Capella and the second was Jupiter. Stars and planets do twinkle and flash colors when low on the horizon.

The experts say the star would've moved slowly over the hour as Jupiter was rising. They also ruled out meteors from the Orionids shower since
meteors move very quickly and appear as a streak of light.

The bright binary pair of Capella consists of two type-G giant stars. The first, primary, star has an surface temperature of approximately 4900 K,
a radius of approximately 12 solar radii, a mass of approximately 2.7 solar masses, and a luminosity, measured over all wavelengths, approximately 79
times that of the Sun. The other, secondary, star has a surface temperature of approximately 5700 K, a radius of approximately 9 solar radii, a mass
of approximately 2.6 solar masses, and a luminosity, again measured over all wavelengths, approximately 78 times that of the Sun.

As we get closer to the end of the year, these things are starting to pop up more and more.

Cool.

yup...our skies will be filled with radio-controlled models of UFO's with flashing lights. with our own tech improving and becoming cheaper to own,
alot more of these model UAV's are available in hobby stores. people are going to have to be more discerning

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